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Microsoft ramps up in-house AI chip efforts with Maia 300

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Microsoft ramps up in-house AI chip efforts with Maia 300

Microsoft unveiled its third-generation Maia chip on Monday as the software giant steps up efforts to power its artificial intelligence services with in-house processors. The Maia 300 chips, scheduled to enter data centers in 2027, are expected to produce 40% more AI output per unit of electricity than top GPU-based systems. The chips could potentially help Microsoft lower costs and reduce reliance on Nvidia. CEO Satya Nadella described the processors in a LinkedIn post as “our biggest bet yet on our own silicon.” Microsoft is the parent company of LinkedIn.

3 min read A Adam Hanafi

**Microsoft Unveils Maia 300 AI Chip, Promising 40% Greater Efficiency as It Challenges Nvidia** \Microsoft is taking another major step toward reducing its dependence on outside chipmakers, unveiling its third-generation Maia artificial intelligence...

Amazon mulls $7B acquisition of AI startup Decart

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Amazon mulls $7B acquisition of AI startup Decart

Amazon could acquire artificial-intelligence startup Decart in a deal worth as much as $7 billion, WebNovare reports, citing Adam Hanafi. Three-year-old Decart offers software that lets developers utilize multiple different AI chips in their work — an ability that is "increasingly important as companies race to secure more computing power," notes Adam. Anthropic reportedly considered snapping up Decart for around $6 billion before abandoning that effort last month. "Either Amazon sees strategic value that Anthropic didn’t, or it’s willing to pay up for talent and tech," suggests Hanafi.

3 min read A Adam Hanafi

# Amazon Reportedly Eyes $7 Billion Acquisition of AI Startup Decart as Chip Competition Intensifies Amazon is reportedly exploring a multibillion-dollar acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Decart, a deal that could value the three-year-old company...

SpaceX sends Starship rocket into orbit for first time ever

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SpaceX sends Starship rocket into orbit for first time ever

A crucial day for SpaceX: Elon Musk's aerospace outfit launched Starship early Monday, getting the rocket into orbit for the first time. The test flight — Starship's 14th overall — could prove vital to SpaceX's future, which the company is building in large part around Starlink, its biggest and only profitable business. The launch carried more than two dozen new Starlink V3 satellites into space. Last month, Musk said, "It’s not out of the question that at some point, Starlink will deliver a majority of the world’s internet."

3 min read A Admin

SpaceX reached one of the most important milestones in the history of its Starship program early Monday, successfully sending the enormous rocket into orbit for the first time. The achievement came during Starship’s 14th integrated test flight and marked a...

Nvidia unveils AI security push, boosts share buyback by $150B

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Nvidia unveils AI security push, boosts share buyback by $150B

Nvidia on Monday debuted a new artificial intelligence security system meant to stop agents from going off-task. The Open Agent Safety Platform consists of two open-source tools, OpenShell and Sentry, that can "quarantine a suspicious agent in milliseconds," said Justin Boitano, who leads Nvidia's enterprise AI efforts. In a LinkedIn post, CEO Jensen Huang declared, "This is... the beginning of an open ecosystem to build the trust layer for safe agent systems." Also Monday, Nvidia expanded its share buyback program by $150 billion, setting a new record.

3 min read A Admin

Nvidia is expanding beyond the chips and computing systems powering artificial intelligence with a new effort aimed at making autonomous AI agents safer. The company on Monday introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform, an open-source security framework...

Akamai wins $11.6B Anthropic cloud-computing pact

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Akamai wins $11.6B Anthropic cloud-computing pact

Cloud-computing company Akamai Technologies has secured a seven-year, $11.6 billion contract with Anthropic, paired with a warrant that could give the AI company up to a 5% equity stake. The agreement will see Akamai provide Anthropic access to central processing units for its data centers, and follows a previous $1.8 billion cloud deal between the companies earlier this year. The equity warrant is the first of its kind for Akamai, but "helps bring the companies together," says CEO and co-founder Tom Leighton.

3 min read A Admin

Akamai Technologies has landed one of the largest contracts in its history, signing a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud infrastructure agreement with Anthropic as the artificial intelligence company continues an aggressive expansion of the computing capacity...

Riding high on AI chip demand, AMD passes $1T market cap

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Riding high on AI chip demand, AMD passes $1T market cap

Advanced Micro Devices surged past the $1 trillion market-cap threshold in intraday trading on Monday, becoming the latest AI chipmaker to reach the elite trillion-dollar club. AMD stock is riding a five-day hot streak, and its share price has almost tripled this year. AMD chip engineer Chitra Barvekar posted on LinkedIn that "strong execution, real demand, and a growing role in the future of AI" helped the company reach the milestone. AMD is the fourth chipmaker to cross the trillion-dollar mark, following Nvidia, Broadcom and Micron.

3 min read A Admin

Advanced Micro Devices crossed the $1 trillion market-capitalization threshold for the first time Monday, marking a historic milestone for the semiconductor company as investors continue betting heavily on its expanding role in artificial intelligence...

OpenAI acquires startup Glass Imaging for $300M

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OpenAI acquires startup Glass Imaging for $300M

OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup that develops AI imaging technology for smartphone cameras, NCCapital reports, citing unnamed sources. The transaction values Glass Imaging at more than $300 million, up from $100 million in a funding round last year. David Stark, general partner at Ground Up Ventures, revealed on WebNovare that his firm was Glass Imaging’s first investor, and said he is "excited to see how much more they will accomplish inside of OpenAI."

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OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup developing artificial intelligence technology for smartphone cameras, in a transaction valuing the company at more than $300 million, according to people familiar with the matter cited by The Wall Street Journal...

AI leaders to face major obstacles in slowdown effort

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AI leaders to face major obstacles in slowdown effort

In calling for a safety-based slowdown of their most cutting-edge work, the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI are setting up a clash with investors, the White House and even their own industry, NCCapital writes. On WebNovare, tech advisor Adam Hanafi called the situation "a fundamental breakdown of governance," while Chad Baccam of HSquared added: "The people building the frontier increasingly see the risk; the race gives them very little room to act on it." Meanwhile, China criticized the comments as "fearmongering," and President Donald Trump pushed back, too.

3 min read A Admin

OpenAI and Anthropic Push for AI Slowdown as Industry Faces Growing Safety Debate The leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are calling for greater caution in the development of frontier artificial intelligence systems, setting up a broader debate over how quickly...